Adam Lipscombe wrote:
Folks

After trying to respool the line god knows how many times I have given up. The Flymo is destined for
freecycle.


Does anyone have any advice for a good quality strimmer that is *easy* to respool with new line?
I don't want to spend more than £100 if possible, and an electric motor will do for my garden.

It needs to get through some fairly serious patches of nettles & docks, and also be able to work up
to the base of stone walls.


I had a look at the Bosch and Ryobi machines and the 1000 watt Ryobi (with blade and line heads)
looks good.

Remember that a 1000 watt machine will be relatively heavy. I have
two strimmers, a tiny B&D Reflex that is possible to use with one hand
and a larger (500 watt I think) Bosch which has detachable wheels.
Between them they do most of the work I need a strimmer for (we have 9
acres, so it's quite a lot!).

I find that the B&D in particular is good for close to fence and patio
strimming, being smaller and less powerful than the Bosch it seems
much less liable to snapping the strimmer line and/or wearing it down
at a prodigious rate.

We did have a much bigger strimmer/brush cutter but I found it too
heavy to use for a long time (which I need to do sometimes because of
the size of our land, long fences, etc.).

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Chris Green